Notices by Yaseen, Prof of Memeology :flag_agender:🏳️‍⚧️ (yassie_j@snowdin.town)

You can tell a lot about someone based on how they treat the cleaner. The cleaner at our office asked if he could have a samosa and we all just said that he could have the entire bag if he wanted.

Me IRL

Also libraries pay royalties to authors every time a book is borrowed. If you borrow a book from the library, you are not only supporting a public service but you are also supporting the author too!

As a former librarian I wish a very friendly Fuck You and Die to book publishers. They are the scum of the Earth.

They hate libraries. Did you know that they induce artificial scarcity by making libraries pay for each digital copy of a book? Despite ebooks being infinitely replicable, they make libraries pay for more than one copy at a time. Publishers deliberately force a limit on the supply of digital library books to extort more money out of libraries for popular titles.

In addition, publishers lobbied (in the UK) to make library ebooks only work through their apps on mobile and PC, and not compatible with any Kindle/Kobo/etc so people wouldn’t get a good experience. There is a cartel — made solely of a company called Overdrive. Their app is absolute buggy dogshit. A far cry from the breezy and simple interface of an e-reader.

But it gets worse. Original proposals from the publishers wanted it so that service users could only download ebooks while physically in the library, thus negating the convenience of them!

Despite ebooks being cheaper to produce than a traditional book and infinitely reproducable, Overdrive will sometimes charge more for an ebook than a supplier would charge for the equivalent copy.

Publishers would have lobbied against the invention of public libraries if they could. And take it from me — public libraries are one of the few open spaces left on this planet where one can just exist at without needing to pay for anything.

@aral I hate that this makes sense

Interesting. Google News is giving me a lot of articles about Threads.

It seems like Zucc has got his PR monkeys to work, because a lot of the articles are like:

“Why Meta’s Twitter rival could finally be the one that catches on” – Sky News

“New Meta app Threads ‘first credible threat’ to Twitter” – The Independent

But what’s curious is that Threads will launch solely in the US and UK on Thursday, because it could not garner EU approval

Corporations are truly taking the piss now.

You used to get 100 g of chocolate for £1.00. Now it’s 85 g for £1.50. Oh, and of course it tastes worse than before because they reduce the quality of the ingredients and hope you don’t notice.

At this scale, I’m sure these food corps are saving millions on costs. They’re all using inflation as a cover for their greed. A potent combination of shitflation, shrinkflation, and greedflation.

Ah the fun is over. Wagner are pulling back from Moscow to “avoid bloodshed”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66006142